History Funny / EltonJohn

* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LXBI5fPics Texan Love Song]]" from 1973's ''Don't Shoot Me I'm Only The Piano Player'', an AffectionateParody of [[Music/MerleHaggard Merle Haggard's]] "Okie From Muskogee" and {{Eagleland}} Type 2, documents a rant between a beer-drinking redneck and a long-haired, countercultural young bar patron flirting with a "cute little thing" the biker has "been dating uptown"; the redneck continues to tear into the hippie with increased, and increasingly jingoistic, malevolence and threatened violence for encroaching on his territory.

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* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LXBI5fPics Texan Love Song]]" from 1973's ''Don't Shoot Me I'm Only The Piano Player'', an AffectionateParody of [[Music/MerleHaggard Merle Haggard's]] "Okie From Muskogee" and {{Eagleland}} Type 2, documents a rant between a beer-drinking redneck and a long-haired, countercultural young bar patron flirting with a "cute little thing" the biker has "been dating uptown"; the redneck continues to tear into the hippie with increased, and increasingly jingoistic, malevolence and threatened violence for encroaching on his territory. Doubles as HilariousInHindsight when the redneck promises to "run all of you fairies right out of this town" and rails against the hippies' "drug-crazy songs".

* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LXBI5fPics Texan Love Song]]" from 1973's ''Don't Shoot Me I'm Only The Piano Player'', an AffectionateParody of [[Music/MerleHaggard Merle Haggard's]] "Okie From Muskogee" and {{Eagleland}} Type 2, documents a rant between a beer-drinking redneck and a long-haired, countercultural young bar patron flirting with a "cute little thing" the biker has "been dating uptown"; the redneck continues to tear into the hippie with increased, and increasingly jingoistic, malevolence and threatened violence for encroaching on his territory.

* After conversing with Jay Leno during an 1994 appearance on TheTonightShow about paparazzi, upon which Elton snarkily remarked that if he knew he was going to die soon, he'd spend his last day on Earth [[KillEmAll lining up the paparazzi in a locked room and shooting them dead with a machine gun]], Jay would ask Elton what the next song he was going to play after the commercial break would be. With a knowing chuckle, Elton replied, "[[Disney/TheLionKing Can You Feel The Love Tonight]]".

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* After conversing with Jay Leno during an 1994 appearance on TheTonightShow about paparazzi, upon which Elton snarkily remarked that if he knew he was going to die soon, he'd spend his last day on Earth [[KillEmAll lining up the paparazzi in a locked room and shooting them dead with a machine gun]], Jay would ask Elton what the next song he was going to play after the commercial break would be. With a knowing chuckle, Elton replied, "[[Disney/TheLionKing Can You Feel The the Love Tonight]]".

* "I wouldn't want anyone to think I am an alcoholic, I want them to ''know'' I am an alcoholic." [[note]]Stage banter he made in his solo 1976 Edinburgh show, shot glass with alcohol in hand. Sadly, it would later turn out to be a FunnyAneurysmMoment for him with his alcoholism.[[/note]]

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* "I wouldn't want anyone to think I am an alcoholic, I want them to ''know'' I am an alcoholic." [[note]]Stage [[labelnote:explanation]]Stage banter he made in his solo 1976 Edinburgh show, shot glass with alcohol in hand. Sadly, it would later turn out to be a FunnyAneurysmMoment for him with his alcoholism.[[/note]][[/labelnote]]

* "I wouldn't want anyone to think I am an alcoholic, I want them to ''know'' I am an alcoholic." [[labelnote:explanation]]Stage banter he made in his solo 1976 Edinburgh show, shot glass with alcohol in hand. Sadly, it would later turn out to be a FunnyAneurysmMoment for him with his alcoholism.[[/labelnote]]

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* "I wouldn't want anyone to think I am an alcoholic, I want them to ''know'' I am an alcoholic." [[labelnote:explanation]]Stage [[note]]Stage banter he made in his solo 1976 Edinburgh show, shot glass with alcohol in hand. Sadly, it would later turn out to be a FunnyAneurysmMoment for him with his alcoholism.[[/labelnote]][[/note]]

*[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GuI4UUZrmw His oven manual song.]]* Elton's stage moves when wearing the Donald Duck suit at his Central Park concert in 1980 involved [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bA6gT-QI3dg rhythmically stomping on the ground and shaking his rear]] (the suit had "flipper" shoes and an enormous "tail" in the back) through "Bite Your Lip (Get Up And Dance)", [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8a301ceauaA then quacking loudly]] through a few verses of "Your Song", at many points {{Corpsing}} at the thought of performing in the ridiculous costume. WordOfGod was that the "tail" was so enormous, he could barely sit at the piano in it.* Speaking of "Your Song," there's this bit: "If I was a sculptor... ''[chuckles]'' ...but then again, '''no'''."* "I wouldn't want anyone to think I am an alcoholic, I want them to ''know'' I am an alcoholic." [[labelnote:explanation]]Stage banter he made in his solo 1976 Edinburgh show, shot glass with alcohol in hand. Sadly, it would later turn out to be a FunnyAneurysmMoment for him with his alcoholism.[[/labelnote]]* After conversing with Jay Leno during an 1994 appearance on TheTonightShow about paparazzi, upon which Elton snarkily remarked that if he knew he was going to die soon, he'd spend his last day on Earth [[KillEmAll lining up the paparazzi in a locked room and shooting them dead with a machine gun]], Jay would ask Elton what the next song he was going to play after the commercial break would be. With a knowing chuckle, Elton replied, "[[Disney/TheLionKing Can You Feel The Love Tonight]]".----

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